more of those curiously ambiguous moments where it's impossible for us to really understand Snape's reactions.
Right now, I don't trust Snape. I trust in getting enough information to be able to decide whether he really is trustworthy or not (or under what conditions he is), but as of right now, I'm more with Ron myself. Snape is, at minimum, either extremely contrary to the point of shooting himself in the foot or profoundly insincere, and neither is exactly a positive.
Where does one find Iser's works?
The book we're reading which contains the theory is Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory Of Aesthetic Response. What belongs with it and I don't have but wish I did is The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. The first is very theoretical, the second is the theory in action with lots of examples. Both are in print, and were published in the late 70's--he's certainly been active since (I saw him give a talk a few weeks ago), but I don't know any of his more recent works yet. This is enough to keep one busy...
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Date: 2005-03-17 07:57 am (UTC)Right now, I don't trust Snape. I trust in getting enough information to be able to decide whether he really is trustworthy or not (or under what conditions he is), but as of right now, I'm more with Ron myself. Snape is, at minimum, either extremely contrary to the point of shooting himself in the foot or profoundly insincere, and neither is exactly a positive.
Where does one find Iser's works?
The book we're reading which contains the theory is Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory Of Aesthetic Response. What belongs with it and I don't have but wish I did is The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. The first is very theoretical, the second is the theory in action with lots of examples. Both are in print, and were published in the late 70's--he's certainly been active since (I saw him give a talk a few weeks ago), but I don't know any of his more recent works yet. This is enough to keep one busy...